{"id":312539,"date":"2019-05-23T05:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312539"},"modified":"2019-05-23T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T05:36:19","slug":"rahul-gandhi-leads-in-wayanad-faces-tough-fight-in-amethi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-leads-in-wayanad-faces-tough-fight-in-amethi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi leads in Wayanad, faces tough fight in Amethi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi is leading in Kerala\u2019s Wayanad constituency by a margin of around 88000 votes against CPI&#8217;s P P Suneer, according to the Election Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, he is facing a tough fight in Amethi from BJP\u2019s Smriti Irani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Smriti Irani is leading with a very thin margin of around 2000 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Smriti Irani\u00a0campaigned aggressively in Amethi, where she had contested and lost to Rahul Gandhi in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All eyes are on Amethi constituency as the battle between Rahul and Smriti will go on till last minute.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi is leading in Kerala\u2019s Wayanad constituency by a margin of around 88000 votes against CPI&#8217;s P P Suneer, according to the Election Commission. However, he is facing a tough fight in Amethi from BJP\u2019s Smriti Irani. Smriti Irani is leading with a very thin margin of around 2000 votes. Smriti Irani\u00a0campaigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[579,1525],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312540,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312539\/revisions\/312540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}